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Mythical History & Historical Myth

Blurred Boundaries in Antiquity

9.30-10.00 Registration & Coffee 10.00-10.30 Welcome notes by Professor Menelaos CHRISTOPOULOS (Director of the Center for the Study of Myth & Religion in Greek & Roman Antiquity), and University of Patras Rectorate

I. HOMER AND ARCHAIC EPOS 10.30-11.50 1 st Session

10.30-10.50 Jonathan BURGESS (University of Toronto): “Aristotle's Constitution of the Ithacans' and the Odyssey” 10.50-11.10 Ronald BLANKENBORG (Radboud University Nijmegen): “Odysseus into the Unknown: ‘Historical' Geography as Pretext for Personal Objectives” 11.10-11.30 Constantin ANTYPAs (University of Patras): “Authority, Power and Governability in the Odyssey: The Mythical Birth of the Polis” 11.30-11.50 Discussion 11.50-12.10 Coffee Break

9.30-9.50 Chiara DI SERIO (University of Rome): “Marginal Remarks on the Concept of ‘Time of Origins' in Classical Greek Culture” 9.50-10.10 Jorge BRAVO (University of Maryland): “Myth and Rivalry in the Archaic Peloponnese: The Case of Argos and the Myth of Opheltes at Nemea” 10.10-10.30 Eleni CHRONOPOULOU (University of Florence): “Myth and Stereotypes: Thessaly as the Land of Magic” 10.30-10.50 Kristen MILLIONS (University of Oxford): “Myth, History, and the Indomitable In-Between: How Mythology has shaped Thessalian History and Archaeology” 10.50-11.10 Discussion 11.10-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-13.10 12 th Session

11.30-11.50 Richard SEAFORD (University of Exeter): “The Introduction of the Mother of the Gods at Athens: History or Myth?” 11.50-12.10 Ioannis MITSIOS (University of Athens): “Mythical History and Historical Myths on the Acropolis of Athens: The Case of the Erechtheion” 12.10-12.30 András PATAY-HORVÁTH (Eötvös Loránd University): “Pelops and the Peloponnese: A Longstanding Rationalization and its Critique” 12.30-12.50 Manolis PAGKALOS (University of Leicester): “Myth, History and Politics: Exploring the Role of the Past in Hellenistic Peloponnesos” 12.50-13.10 Discussion

14.30-16.10 13 th Session

14.30-14.50 Mark THATCHER (Boston College): “Myth at the Foundation: Building Identities in Magna Graecia” 14.50-15.10 Alexandros VELAORAS (University of Patras): “Myth and History in the Court of Archelaus” 15.10-15.30 Chiara MECCARIELLO (University of Göttingen): “Arsinoe among the Nymphs: Myth, History and Power in School Texts from Ptolemaic Egypt” 15.30-15.50 Kerasia STRATIKI (Hellenic Open University): “Mythical History and Historical Myth in Pausanias' Periegesis: The Case of the Foundation of the polis of Patras” 15.50-16.10 Discussion 16.10-16.30 Coffee break

11.30-11.50 Biagio SANTORELLI (University of Genoa): “Searching for the Golden Age in Roman ‘Real' History” 11.50-12.10 Katharina-Maria SCHÖN (University of Vienna): “Acerba Fata Romanos Agunt – Unravelling Rome's Mytho-Historic Foundations: Born to Live or Doomed to Fail?” 12.10-12.30 Stefano ROZZI (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): “Religio Instrumentum Belli: The Perspective of a General” 12.30-12.50 Joel ALLEN (The City University of New York): “Empire, Ethnicity, Exegesis: Lucian on Interpretations of Greek Myth in the Roman Mediterranean” 12.50-13.10 Discussion